Imagine for a second that you are in front of a shelf of books. You read through the spines and find one that looks rather interesting. It's a history of our civilization, dating from our earliest ancestors to just about when the Greeks take center stage. You pick up this book and proceed to open to the middle;

and the book snaps shut with a cryptic error message about not knowing if you've purchased it or not.

This is #DRM in action and this is part of why I find it completely unconscionable